our team.
Tina Ajuonuma - Founder and Principal Consultant
Tina Ajuonuma is a practitioner and researcher in organisational development and behaviour with nearly 20 years’ experience in the social impact space, with experience working in Africa, Europe and North America. As the Founder and Principal Consultant at The Better Org, Tina provides strategic consulting advice to non-profit and social impact organisations within the areas of anti-racism, DEI, culture change, strategy and planning, project management, operational design and delivery, human resources, organisational learning, and impact evaluation. Tina holds an Executive MBA from Warwick University where she was awarded a distinction grade for her research on Bias in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programmes. She also holds certifications in Prince 2 and PMD Pro, and is a certified Psychological Safety Index (PSI) Practitioner.
Prior to establishing The Better Org, Tina led strategy, planning, and impact measurement at the advocacy and campaigning group ONE (www.one.org), and oversaw London operations at the Arts Council England national creative education programme Creative Partnerships. Tina serves on the working group of The Racial Equity Index, a collective of Black, Indigenous, people of colour working in international development, advocating for greater racial equity and racial justice in the sector through the creation of a racial equity accountability mechanism. Tina is also a board member for 64 Million Artists, a social enterprise that creates programmes that facilitate using everyday creativity to create positive social change.
Uma Mishra-Newbery - Senior Consultant
Uma Mishra-Newbery is a global social justice and women’s rights leader, transformative speaker, former Executive Director of Women’s March Global, the initiator and facilitator for the Racial Equity Index, and an organizational strategy (including campaign and programs) and racial equity consultant. As a facilitator for the Racial Equity Index, Uma is working within a BIPOC-led and formed global anti-racist collective to help build the first-ever index for racial equity in global development and advocate for justice and greater racial equity in the global development sector. Uma is a somatic abolitionist in training working to further understand the impact that race has on the physical body. She uses this knowledge in her consultancy work with organizations to provide grounded facilitation in the difficult conversations that can present around race, racism, and racial equity within organizations.
Uma’s transparent, visionary yet grounded leadership at Women’s March Global was instrumental in furthering the mobilisation and assembly of women globally around women’s rights issues with Women’s March Global. Uma has organised and built coalitions around the issues of women’s human rights defenders, freedom of association and assembly, bodily autonomy, LGBTQIA+ rights, racial equity and justice, and white supremacy in the women’s rights and funding space. As a leader in the global women’s rights movement Uma has been interviewed by CNN, AlJazeera, Jane Dutton, Newsweek, Devex and published by Ms. Magazine, TIME, and IPS. Uma helped to bring Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain AlHathloul’s story to the United Nations and was instrumental in coordinating efforts for Lina AlHathloul’s first statement in support of Loujain at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Uma and Lina are co-authors of the children’s picture book, Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers.